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Bradford  Paul  Raymond 


1846-1916 


Wesleyan  University 
Middletown,  Conn. 


1916 


BRADFORD  PAUL  RAYMOND 


O  radford  Paul  Raymond,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  President  of 
Wesleyan  University  and  Professor  of  Moral  Philosophy, 
1889-1908,  Professor  of  English  Bible,  1908-1909,  Professor  of 
Ethics  and  Biblical  Literature,  Emeritus,  1909-1916,  died  on 
Sunday,  February  27th,  1916. 

At  the  vesper  service  in  the  chapel  that  afternoon,  the  death 
of  Dr.  Raymond  was  announced  to  the  assembly  in  the  follow¬ 
ing  words: — 

“It  is  my  duty  to  make  the  sad  announcement  that 
Bradford  Paul  Raymond,  ex-President,  more  recently  Pro¬ 
fessor  emeritus  in  Wesleyan  University,  died  suddenly  this 
afternoon.  He  attended  divine  service  as  usual  this  forenoon, 
and  was  conversing  with  a  friend  in  his  home,  and  then  with 
scarcely  a  moment’s  warning  he  passed  away  from  earth.  In 
youth  a  brave  soldier  of  his  country,  in  all  his  life  a  brave 
soldier  of  the  truth,  a  faithful  and  useful  pastor,  the  honored 
president  of  two  colleges,  a  man  of  singular  purity  of  character 
and  sweetness  of  spirit.  ‘  Blessed  are  the  dead  that  die  in  the 
Lord.  Yea,  saith  the  Spirit,  that  they  may  rest  from  their 
labors,  and  their  works  do  follow  them.’  ” 

On  Wednesday,  March  1st,  the  day  of  the  funeral,  all 
college  exercises  were  omitted  except  the  morning  chapel 
service.  That  service  was  opened  with  the  following  words 
by  President  Shanklin: — 

“  Though  a  memorial  service  for  Dr.  Raymond  is  to  be  held 
Sunday  afternoon,  it  is  peculiarly  fitting  that  the  faculty  and 
undergraduates  of  Wesleyan  University  should,  as  a  body, 
make  this  recognition  of  him  who  was  the  head  of  Wesleyan 
for  nineteen  years,  and  whose  personal  character  was  one  long 
service  to  the  men  of  Wesleyan.  His  life  taught  Wesleyan 
men  that  integrity,  the  love  of  truth,  and  high,  unselfish  aims, 
make,  for  any  man  in  whom  they  meet,  a  rich  and  happy 
life.” 


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In  the  afternoon  of  that  day,  the  funeral  service  was  held 
at  Dr.  Raymond’s  home.  The  funeral  services  were  con¬ 
ducted  by  the  Reverend  William  D.  Beach,  Pastor  of  the 
First  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  Professors  Winchester  and 
Rice,  and  the  Right  Reverend  E.  Campion  Acheson,  D.  D., 
Suffragan  Bishop  of  Connecticut. 

On  Sunday,  March  5th,  a  Memorial  Service  in  honor  of 
Dr.  Raymond,  under  the  auspices  of  Wesleyan  University, 
was  held  in  the  First  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  President 
Shanklin  presided.  Prayer  was  offered  by  the  pastor  of  the 
church.  Addresses  were  delivered  by  Professors  Rice  and 
Winchester,  Rev.  F.  Mason  North,  D.  D.,  who  has  been  for 
many  years  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  college, 
and  Rev.  Azel  W.  Hazen,  pastor  of  the  First  Congregational 
Church  of  Middletown.  In  arranging  the  plan  of  the  memorial 
service,  it  was  understood  that  Professor  Rice  should  give  a 
biographical  sketch  of  Dr.  Raymond,  and  that  the  other 
speakers  should  speak  of  various  phases  of  his  character  and 
work  as  they  had  appeared  to  a  colleague  in  the  Faculty,  to  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  and  to  a  fellow- worker  in 
the  civic  and  religious  life  of  the  town.  The  four  addresses 
are  published  entire  in  this  pamphlet. 

The  profound  respect  and  warm  esteem  felt  for  Dr.  Raymond 
by  all  who  had  been  in  any  manner  associated  with  him  found 
expression  in  resolutions  adopted  by  various  organizations  in 
college  and  in  town.  In  this  pamphlet  are  published  the 
resolutions  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  Wesleyan  University, 
the  Faculty,  the  College  Body,  the  Wesleyan  Chapter  of 
Commons  Clubs,  the  Official  Board  of  the  First  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  and  the  Mansfield  Post  of  the  Grand  Army 
of  the  Republic. 


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Address  by 
William  North  Rice 


Bradford  Paul  Raymond,  son  of  Lewis  and  Sallie  A.  Ray¬ 
mond,  was  born  in  the  little  village  of  High  Ridge,  in  Stam¬ 
ford,  Connecticut,  April  22,  1846.  His  life  therefore  nearly 
reached  the  traditional  limit  of  three-score  years  and  ten. 
The  influences  of  his  childhood  home  revealed  themselves  in 
his  life  and  character.  His  father  was  a  farmer,  living  on  a 
farm  which  he  had  inherited  from  a  former  generation. 
Though  possessed  of  no  more  than  a  common  school  education, 
he  was  a  man  of  vigorous  and  active  intellect,  the  leader  of  a 
debating  society  in  which  the  farmers  of  that  part  of  the  town 
were  accustomed  to  meet,  deeply  interested  in  the  affairs  of 
town  and  state  and  nation,  and  influential  in  local  politics. 
From  him  the  son  may  well  have  derived  his  intense  patriotism 
and  his  wide  outlook  upon  public  affairs.  For  the  influence 
revealed  in  the  profoundly  religious  spirit  of  the  son,  he  was 
chiefly  indebted  to  his  mother.  A  woman  of  great  religious 
earnestness,  she  prayed  for  her  children,  and  she  prayed  with 
them,  and  her  prayers  were  richly  answered.  Her  husband 
had  been  in  his  early  life  not  altogether  in  harmony  with  the 
teachings  of  the  more  conservative  Christian  denominations, 
but  in  his  later  life  he  was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Church 
and  a  teacher  in  the  Sunday  School. 

Bradford  was  educated  in  the  district  school  in  High  Ridge. 
The  little  community  supported  no  high  school,  but  they  were 
fortunate  in  having  some  good  teachers,  who  inspired  their 
pupils  with  a  love  of  learning,  and  who  led  them  somewhat 
beyond  the  curriculum  of  the  ordinary  graded  school. 

When  Bradford  was  fifteen  years  old,  the  controversy  in  the 
nation  over  the  slavery  question  suddenly  flamed  into  war. 
The  farmers  of  High  Ridge  had  been  deeply  interested  in 
political  questions,  and  responded  loyally  when  the  call  to 
arms  sounded  on  their  ears.  From  almost  every  house  along 
the  village  street,  one  or  more  of  the  sons  went  into  the  army 


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of  the  country.  Two  of  the  older  brothers  of  the  Raymond 
family  enlisted  early  in  the  war.  Young  Bradford  waited 
impatiently  for  the  years  to  pass  until  he  should  reach  the 
minimum  age  of  military  service.  When  he  reached  the  age 
of  eighteen,  he  could  wait  no  longer.  He  left  his  home  and 
enlisted  in  the  48th  New  York  regiment.  He  served  in  the 
Fort  Fisher  campaign,  but  contracted  malarial  fever  and  spent 
a  considerable  part  of  the  period  of  his  enlistment  in  the  hos¬ 
pital.  He  came  home  at  the  end  of  the  war  with  his  health 
considerably  broken,  his  body  still  shaking  with  malarial 
chills. 

Soon  after  his  return  he  went  to  Red  Wing,  Minnesota, 
whither  an  uncle  and  an  older  brother  had  preceded  him. 
Soon  after  his  arrival  there  he  experienced  an  intense  religious 
awakening.  Earlier  in  life  he  had  had  a  conviction  that  he 
ought  to  enter  the  ministry  of  the  gospel,  but  he  was  unwilling 
to  do  so.  In  his  new  experience  of  religious  life  he  gave  him¬ 
self  unreservedly  to  the  service  of  God.  With  an  enthusiasm 
like  that  which  had  led  him  into  the  army  of  his  country,  he 
enlisted  in  the  service  of  Christ,  ready  to  go  wherever  he 
might  be  sent  and  to  do  whatever  duty  might  be  assigned  to 
him.  From  that  time  until  his  death,  his  life  was  one  of  con¬ 
sistent  loyalty  to  Christian  principle. 

With  his  new  outlook  upon  life  he  felt  the  need  of  a  larger 
education.  About  a  dozen  years  before,  a  little  college  had 
been  established  in  Red  Wing  under  the  name  of  Hamline 
University.  In  1869  the  institution  lapsed  into  a  state  of  sus¬ 
pended  animation.  Subsequently  it  renewed  its  life  in  Saint 
Paul.  Young  Raymond  somehow  acquired  some  sort  of 
preparation  for  college,  entered  Hamline  University  in  1866, 
and  remained  in  the  institution  until  it  closed  its  doors  in 
1869.  During  the  last  year  of  its  existence  in  Red  Wing,  the 
college  was  kept  running  largely  by  the  efforts  of  Raymond 
and  another  student,  who  persuaded  instructors  and  students 
to  hold  on  till  the  close  of  the  year,  and  begged  money  to  pro¬ 
vide  for  current  expenses.  Thus  he  served  early  an  appren¬ 
ticeship  for  the  duties  of  a  college  president. 

The  life  at  Red  Wing  in  still  another  way  profoundly  in¬ 
fluenced  the  future  career  of  young  Raymond,  for  it  was  there 
that  he  met  Miss  Uulu  A.  Rich,  who  was  destined  to  be  the 


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light  of  his  life  and  the  mistress  of  his  home  for  more  than 
two-score  years. 

When  the  college  at  Red  Wing  closed  its  doors,  Raymond 
went  to  Lawrence  University,  Appleton,  Wisconsin,  where  he 
completed  the  college  course  in  1870.  The  next  three  years 
were  spent  in  the  School  of  Theology  of  Boston  University. 
There  he  became  profoundly  interested  in  the  study  of  phil¬ 
osophy,  particularly  in  its  relation  to  religion. 

The  seven  years  following  his  graduation  from  the  School 
of  Theology  were  spent  in  the  pastorate  in  New  Bedford, 
Massachusetts,  and  Providence,  Rhode  Island.  Then  came  a 
year  in  Germany,  devoted  to  his  favorite  studies  in  philosophy 
and  theology.  Returning  from  Europe,  Raymond  spent  two 
years  more  in  the  pastorate  in  Nashua,  New  Hampshire.  In 
all  the  churches  that  he  served,  he  was  greatly  beloved.  His 
sermons  were  scholarly,  thoughtful,  spiritual;  his  kindness  and 
genial  sympathy  endeared  him  to  his  people  as  a  friend  and 
counsellor. 

In  1883  Dr.  Raymond  left  the  pastorate  and  entered  upon 
what  was  destined  to  be  the  main  work  of  his  life — the  work 
of  college  education.  From  1883  to  1889  he  was  President  of 
Lawrence  University,  his  alma  mater.  The  high  success 
which  he  gained  there  as  administrator  and  as  teacher  com¬ 
mended  him  to  the  favorable  attention  of  the  trustees  of  Wes¬ 
leyan  University.  November  19,  1888,  Dr.  Raymond  was 
elected  President  and  Professor  of  Moral  Philosophy  in  Wes¬ 
leyan  University,  and  he  entered  upon  his  duties  in  Wesleyan 
at  the  beginning  of  the  following  college  year.  He  held  that 
position  in  Wesleyan  University  until  1908. 

The  nineteen  years  of  his  presidency  in  Wesleyan  were  years 
in  which  important  progress  was  made  in  various  phases  of  the 
life  of  the  college.  Old  South  College  reconstructed  to  serve  as 
an  administrative  building,  the  new  North  College  which  rose 
from  the  ashes  of  the  old  one,  the  Scott  Physical  Laboratory 
and  Willbur  Fisk  Hall,  the  P'ayerweather  Gymnasium,  the 
president’s  mansion,  the  Andrus  athletic  field — are  visible  monu¬ 
ments  of  the  progress  made  in  the  material  equipment  of  the 
college  during  his  administration.  In  1889  the  land  and  build¬ 
ings  of  the  college  were  valued  at  $400,000.  In  1908  they 
were  valued  at  $885,362,  and  in  addition  $46,136  was  invested 


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as  a  fund  to  be  used,  when  the  proper  time  should  come,  in 
the  building  of  an  astronomical  observatory.  The  library, 
museum,  apparatus,  and  other  personal  property  employed  in 
the  uses  of  the  college  increased  in  value  from  $109,630  to 
$197,643.  The  endowment  in  1889  was  $698,556;  in  1908, 
$1,460,783. 

The  value  alike  of  the  plant  and  of  the  endowment  was  more 
than  doubled.  In  the  first  year  of  Dr.  Raymond’s  administra¬ 
tion  the  faculty  numbered  19  and  the  student  body  218.  In 
the  last  year  the  facult3^  numbered  35  and  the  student  body 
316.  The  increase  in  numbers  of  faculty  and  students  was 
respectively  84  and  45  per  cent. 

The  great  change  in  the  life  of  the  college  from  the  old 
system  of  fixed  curriculum  and  narrow  pedagogic  methods  and 
faculty  surveillance,  to  the  freer  modern  life  of  elective  studies 
and  individual  laboratory  work  and  student  responsibility,  had 
taken  place  sixteen  years  before  the  advent  of  Dr.  Raymond 
at  Wesleyan.  He  was  profoundly  in  sympathy  with  the  new 
Wesleyan  to  whose  presidency  he  was  called.  Important 
changes  made  during  his  administration  carried  to  a  fuller 
realization  the  ideals  of  the  great  reform  of  1873. 

The  honor  system  in  examinations  took  the  place  of  faculty 
espionage.  Alas!  We  have  not  reached  the  millennium,  but 
no  one  of  us  in  faculty  or  student  body  wants  to  go  back  to  the 
old  system.  A  Committee  of  Conference  was  established, 
including  representatives  of  faculty  and  students,  a  committee 
of  which  the  undergraduate  members  form  the  College  Senate. 
The  Faculty  have  not  forgotten,  and  will  not  forget,  that  the 
constitution  of  the  college  imposes  upon  them  the  responsibility 
of  government,  and  they  have  no  disposition  to  abdicate;  but 
the  better  understanding  which  has  come  from  the  frank  and 
friendly  discussions  in  the  committee  of  conference,  and  the 
stronger  sense  of  responsibility  which  has  been  created  in  the 
minds  of  the  students  as  the  result  of  the  measure  of  self- 
government  with  which  they  have  been  intrusted,  have  been 
profoundly  wholesome  in  the  recent  life  of  the  college. 

The  greatest  change  which  has  been  made  in  the  curriculum 
at  am^  time  since  1873  came  just  at  the  close  of  Dr.  Raymond’s 
administration.  In  the  new  curriculum  the  principle  of  elec¬ 
tion  is  carried  farther  than  ever  before  in  this  college.  The 


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only  studies  absolutely  required  for  a  baccalaureate  degree  are 
algebra,  geometry,  rhetoric,  and  English  composition.  All 
else  is  elective,  and  a  student  may  become  a  Bachelor  of  Arts 
without  Greek  and  without  any  mathematics  beyond  algebra 
and  geometry.  Yet  this  by  no  means  implies  that  a  student  is 
left  to  drift  without  any  guidance.  Excessive  specialization 
is  prevented,  not  by  the  requirement  of  a  considerable  list  of 
specifically  required  studies,  but  by  the  group  system,  which 
requires  a  student  to  elect  a  certain  number  of  courses  in  each 
of  the  great  departments  of  human  thought.  The  opposite 
tendency  to  the  dissipation  of  a  student’s  time  in  a  multitude 
of  elementary  courses  without  any  advanced  work,  is  counter¬ 
acted  by  the  system  of  major  studies. 

The  men  who  in  1831  founded  Wesleyan  University  were 
profoundly  religious  men,  and  were  not  ashamed  to  be  known 
as  Methodists.  Their  loyalty  to  Methodism  found  expression  in 
the  very  unfortunate  name  which  was  given  to  the  institution. 
But  with  all  their  denominational  zeal  they  showed  a  spirit  of 
true  liberality  in  the  provision  in  the  charter  “  that  no  by-laws 
or  ordinances  shall  be  established  by  said  corporation,  which 
shall  make  the  religious  tenets  of  any  person  a  condition  of 
admission  to  any  privilege  in  said  university;  and  that  no 
president,  professor  or  other  officer  shall  be  made  ineligible  for 
or  by  reason  of  any  religious  tenets  that  he  may  profess,  nor 
be  compelled  by  any  by-laws  or  otherwise  to  subscribe  to  any 
religious  test  whatever.”  Unfortunately,  in  1870  a  narrow 
and  reactionary  spirit  influenced  the  trustees  of  the  college, 
and  a  new  charter  was  secured  which  provided  ‘  ‘  that  at  all 
times  the  majority  of  the  Trustees,  the  President  and  a 
majority  of  the  Faculty  shall  be  members  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church.”  The  close  of  Dr.  Raymond’s  administra¬ 
tion  was  signalized  by  the  adoption  in  1907  of  a  new  charter, 
which  abolished  the  denominational  restriction  imposed  by  the 
charter  of  1870,  and  provided  “that  no  denominational  test 
shall  be  imposed  in  the  choice  of  trustees,  officers,  or  teachers, 
or  in  the  admission  of  students.” 

During  all  his  administration  as  President,  Dr.  Raymond 
was  also  Professor  of  Moral  Philosophy.  The  studies  which 
he  taught,  though  varying  somewhat  from  year  to  year,  were 
in  general  such  studies  as  are  now  included  in  the  department 
of  Ethics  and  Religion.  His  work  in  the  class  room  was  felt 


by  many  students  as  a  profound  moral  and  religious  inspira¬ 
tion.  His  mind  was  hospitable  to  the  new  truth  which  modern 
science  and  criticism  have  discovered,  but  he  taught  ever  in 
the  spirit  of  one  to  whom  Christian  faith  is  not  a  theory  but 
a  life.  And  alike  in  teaching  and  in  administration,  the 
purity  of  his  character,  his  transparent  frankness,  and  his 
kindliness  of  spirit  made  him  a  benediction  to  the  students 
who  came  under  his  influence.  His  relation  with  his  colleagues 
in  the  Faculty  was  that  of  loving  comradeship. 

In  1907  Dr.  Raymond  offered  his  resignation  of  the  presid¬ 
ency,  to  take  effect  a  year  later.  It  was  arranged  that  he 
should  remain  as  professor,  and  he  looked  forward  to  what  he 
hoped  might  be  the  happiest  and  most  richly  useful  period  of 
his  life.  Relieved  of  the  cares  and  perplexities  of  administra¬ 
tion,  he  hoped  to  devote  himself  to  investigation  and  teaching 
in  those  studies  in  which  from  his  student  days  he  had  been 
profoundly  interested.  But  his  hope  was  disappointed.  Instead 
of  recover)’  of  health  and  vigor,  the  years  brought  only  increas¬ 
ing  weakness.  In  1908  Professor  Raymond  was  granted  leave 
of  absence,  and  a  year  later  it  became  obvious  that  there  was 
no  hope  of  such  improvement  of  his  health  as  would  enable 
him  to  do  systematic  work  as  a  teacher.  In  1909,  therefore, 
he  became  professor  emeritus,  and  that  was  his  relation  to  the 
college  until  the  time  of  his  death. 

In  these  years  of  retirement,  Dr.  Raymond’s  patience  under 
limitations,  and  his  purity,  unselfishness,  and  gentleness,  have 
deepened  the  love  with  which  his  friends  have  regarded  him. 
He  has  seen  the  college  that  he  loved  advancing  under  other 
guidance  to  a  larger  prosperity;  he  has  seen  his  old  colleagues 
doing  that  work  of  investigation  and  of  teaching  in  which  he 
had  hoped  to  share.  But  he  has  trodden  his  narrow  path 
without  envy  and  without  repining.  When  for  the  last  time 
he  stood  in  this  pulpit,  and  spoke  of  that  great  hope  of  immor¬ 
tality  to  which  saints  and  seers  and  bards  have  borne  witness, 
and  to  which  the  risen  Lord  gave  strong  assurance,  we  knew 
not  how  thin  was  the  veil  between  him  and  the  glories  of  the 
life  eternal.  The  light  of  the  other  world  shone  through  and 
illumined  his  spirit.  One  week  ago  he  joined  in  the  worship 
of  this  church,  and  then  in  a  moment  he  joined  in  the  holier 
worship  of  the  church  triumphant  in  heaven.  “He  walked 
with  God,  and  he  was  not,  for  God  took  him.” 


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Address  by 
Frank  Mason  North 


One  must  speak  to-day  in  this  presence  in  terms  of  the 
heart.  When  the  appraisal  of  character  is  made — the  care¬ 
fully  balanced  summary  of  the  qualities  which  made  Bradford 
Paul  Raymond  what  he  was,  and  the  judicial  valuation  of  the 
services  which  gave  him  his  place  among  the  potent  workers 
and  constructive  thinkers  of  his  generation, — his  name  will  be 
starred  for  High  Honors,  the  magna  ciim  laude ,  in  the  record 
both  of  this  University  and  of  the  Church. 

But  now  we  are  thinking  of  our  friend  as,  in  and  out  among 
us,  he  moved  in  home  and  church,  in  town  and  college.  We 
recall  him  in  the  relaxations  of  familiar  fellowship,  in  the 
sorrows,  anxieties,  the  ministrations  and  delights  of  his  ever 
hospitable  family  circle,  in  the  tests,  the  stimulation  and  the 
humors  of  travel,  in  the  play  of  repartee  and  the  strain  of 
serious  discussion,  in  the  sobering  responsibilities  and  per¬ 
plexities  of  official  administration,  in  the  mental  and  spiritual 
processes  of  platform  and  pulpit  address,  in  the  sacred  intim¬ 
acies  of  personal  confidences,  in  the  days  of  shadow  and  dread 
when  suspicion  of  the  arrest  of  physical  effectiveness  hardened 
into  certainty,  when  the  test,  than  which  life  brings  scarce 
any  more  exacting — the  forced  exchange  of  the  ardor  of  the 
advance  for  the  quiet  waiting  for  a  foreseen  and  inevitable 
end, — had  come  to  him. 

What  drew  us  to  him  and  held  us  as  by  hooks  of  steel  ? 
What  gave  us  great  contentment  and  refreshing  in  his  friend¬ 
ship  ? 

Perhaps,  primarily,  that  he  was  jiatural.  He  was  not  indif¬ 
ferent  to  the  etiquette  of  life,  but  he  could  not  be  persuaded 
to  make  the  mode  of  things  a  main  objective.  He  was  quite 
content  without  sash  and  epaulets,  though  he  was  found  a 
good  soldier  when  he  was  scarcely  more  than  a  boy.  It  was 
with  amused  reluctance  that  he  yielded  to  the  modern  demands 
for  scholastic  robing.  He  delighted  in  plain  dealing  and  simple 


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ways.  He  was  at  home  in  high  company  and  equally  at  home 
with  children  or  with  the  man  of  the  street.  His  native  dig¬ 
nity  set  natural  bounds  to  encroachment,  but  he  was  not 
infrequently  amused  to  find  himself  distinguished.  He  ever 
felt  upon  his  face  the  breath  of  his  native  hills.  He  was 
reverent  towards  nature,  and  found  a  joy  in  the  companionship 
of  the  beings  of  every  kind  which  God  had  made  and  in  the 
wonders  of  a  world  which  to  him  was  the  work  of  his  Almighty 
Father. 

Then,  he  was  genuine.  He  could  neither  simulate  nor 
dissimulate.  Imitation  and  pretense  were  alike  foreign  to  his 
nature.  He  was  devoted  to  his  books,  and  in  the  busy  occu¬ 
pations  of  his  official  life  mourned  aloud  and  often  that  he 
could  find  so  little  time  for  these  trusted  friends  of  all  the 
ages.  But  he  did  his  own  thinking.  It  was  a  delight  to 
watch  him  in  public  address  unfold,  illustrate,  and  bring  to 
fruition  a  theme  or  a  thought.  He  was  genuine  in  his  affec¬ 
tions  and  his  friendships.  His  conscience  was  not  pampered. 
His  moral  perceptions  were  without  embarrassing  hesitancies. 
He  was  tolerant  of  others,  both  as  to  their  thinking  and  their 
defects  of  conduct.  But  he  promptly  recognized  a  sham, 
whether  it  wore  clothes  and  walked  about,  or  took  to  type  and 
had  itself  bound  in  cloth  or  morocco.  His  genuineness  kept 
him  from  some  successes  and  won  for  him  many  victories. 

He  was  unselfish.  He  had  a  self,  strong,  ardent,  patient, 
purposeful.  His  achievement  in  life  owed  less  to  aptness  of 
circumstance  than  to  strength  of  will.  He  aimed  to  do  things 
and  to  do  them  well.  He  was  not  softly  indifferent  to  excel¬ 
lence  and  success.  To  him  life  meant  action, — action  on  his 
own  part,  the  interaction  with  forces  and  persons  toward  the 
attainment  of  noble  ends.  He  had  high  ambitions  for  the 
University.  Stones  in  its  broader  foundations  were  laid  firm 
and  true  by  his  industry  and  skill.  Whatever  there  was  either 
within  him  or  at  his  command  he  invested  in  this  college,  and 
the  investment  will  yield  large  dividends  as  long  as  the  college 
stands. 

He  had  a  self.  He  was  a  self.  He  was  individual.  He  was 
a  strong  personality.  But  he  was  rarely,  if  ever,  self-conscious. 
He  was  not  self-centered.  No  one  ever  thought  of  him  as  a 
self-seeker.  He  was  intensely  human  in  his  interpretation  of 


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life  and  in  his  sympathies.  His  was  a  broad  conception  of  the 
significance  of  the  Kingdom  of  God.  To  it,  in  his  thinking, 
belonged  all  learning,  all  industrial  conditions,  all  social  pro¬ 
gress.  He  reckoned  with  himself  as  one  of  God’s  men,  whose 
business  in  the  world  is  not  with  themselves  but  with  God’s 
Kingdom.  “  The  Kingdom  of  God  and  His  righteousness  ” — 
these,  this  man,  this  fine  friend  of  ours,  sought  first.  Selfish¬ 
ness  shrivels  under  the  flame  of  such  holy  enthusiasm  for 
God’s  will  and  God’s  world.  In  men  so  controlled,  it  is 
impossible  that  their  ambitions  shall  coerce  their  ethics  or  that 
their  conduct  shall  be  determined  by  sinister  aims.  God  is  in 
all  their  thoughts  and  their  life  is  the  expression  of  His  will. 

Since  the  day  when  the  hand  of  God  touched  his  bonds  and 
released  Bradford  Paul  Raymond  for  the  free,  open  life  he 
loved,  I  have  listened  while  one  and  another  who  knew  him 
well  have  spoken  of  him.  It  has  all  been  in  the  language  of 
the  heart.  For  myself,  I  have  been  moved  to  add  a  note  to 
the  marginal  references  at  one  of  the  favorite  verses  of  all 
Christian  aspiration.  It  is  in  Paul’s  Epistle  to  the  Galatians. 
Dr.  Raymond,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  was  rather  devoted  to  the 
great  Apostle  whose  name  he  bore.  He  found  stimulation 
for  both  mind  and  spirit  in  thinking  after  him.  He  was  eager 
to  follow  him  as  he  followed  Christ.  Alongside  of  Galatians 
v,  22,  23,  in  my  Bible,  I  have  written  the  initials  of  my  friend, 
B.  P.  R.  With  him  in  your  mind,  his  character,  his  temper, 
his  method,  his  achievement,  weigh  deliberately  the  words  of 
this  wonderful  trilogy  of  spiritual  qualities.  They  describe 
the  very  essence  of  character,  the  eternal  standard  of  conduct. 
Think  of  him,  I  .say,  while  you  listen  to  the  Apostle  Paul 
saying, 

“The  fruit  of  the  Spirit  is: 

Love,  Joy,  Peace, 

Long-suffering,  Kindness,  Goodness, 

Faithfulness,  Meekness,  Self-control.” 

What  higher,  what  truer  word  can  be  spoken  of  our  friend 
than  this,  that  there  is  no  shock  to  taste,  to  intelligence,  nor 
to  conscience,  in  writing  here  the  name  of  Bradford  Paul 
Raymond  ? 


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Address  by 

Azel  Washburn  Hazen 


“  Middletown  has  lost  a  good  citizen,”  has  been  a  common 
remark  here  of  late.  Few  men  have  ever  won  the  esteem  of 
this  entire  community  as  Dr.  Raymond  did.  He  made  a  con¬ 
quest  of  us  all,  regardless  of  political  or  social  lines.  He 
manifested  a  genuine  and  an  intelligent  interest  in  the  well¬ 
being  of  the  city.  He  was  never  heard  to  speak  ill  of  it.  He 
desired  that  it  might  prosper,  and  contributed  his  full  measure 
of  thought,  as  well  as  of  action,  to  that  end.  He  was  faithful 
to  his  obligations  as  a  citizen.  When  health  and  occasion 
allowed,  he  was  glad  to  speak  to  his  fellow-men  on  themes  of 
secular  or  religious  importance.  His  words  were  never  idle, 
but  freighted  with  practical  wisdom.  His  noble  patriotism 
often  stirred  the  soldiers  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic, 
as  well  as  all  others  who  felt  its  throb  in  his  warm  heart.  His 
sermons  in  our  pulpits,  and  his  addresses  on  special  occasions 
abounded  in  high  thinking,  clothed  in  language  fitted  to  send 
them  home  to  the  hearts  of  his  hearers.  It  was  a  joy  to  him 
to  speak  in  public,  not  for  his  own  sake,  but  for  the  sake  of 
others.  His  lofty  eloquence  will  not  soon  be  forgotten  by 
those  who  had  the  rare  privilege  of  sitting  under  its  spell. 

Dr.  Raymond  was  a  firm  friend  of  education  for  the  people. 
While  at  the  head  of  a  cherished  institution  for  higher  learn¬ 
ing,  he  keenly  appreciated  the  value  of  the  public  schools. 
He  contributed  not  a  little  to  lessen  the  distance  between  the 
University  and  the  town,  showing  that  the  prosperity  of  the 
former  enhanced  that  of  the  latter.  It  is  not  easy  to  estimate 
his  influence  in  this  regard.  Likewise,  he  often  lifted  up  his 
voice  in  behalf  of  temperance  and  other  wise  reforms.  You 
never  doubted  as  to  where  he  would  stand  on  questions  per¬ 
taining  to  the  civic  welfare. 

Notwithstanding  all  this  fruitful  service,  Dr.  Raymond  did 
most  for  the  town  by  the  nobility  of  his  character.  The 
fragrance  of  his  upright  and  holy  life  was  diffused  wherever 


he  went.  Dean  Stanley,  speaking  in  Baltimore  in  1878, 
uttered  these  sagacious  words:  —  “  The  lapse  of  years  has  only 
served  to  deepen  in  me  the  conviction  that  no  gift  can  be  more 
valuable  than  the  inspiration  of  a  great  character  working  on 
our  own.”  And  this  stalwart  character  did  its  beneficent  work 
here  for  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century.  How  was  it  built? 
Hear  the  profound  words  of  President  Raymond  himself: 
“  The  fatherhood  of  God,  the  brotherhood  of  man,  and  the 
hope  of  immortality  are  doctrines  supported  by  our  ideals, 
since  these  ideals  cannot  be  realized  without  them.”  He  felt 
that  “other  foundation  can  no  man  lay,  than  that  which  is 
laid,  which  is  Jesus  Christ.”  He  had  no  need  to  use  the 
lamentable  direction  of  another,  —  “Take  my  influence  and 
bury  it  with  me.”  Fellow-citizens  of  Middletown,  let  us 
never  forget  that  the  master-key  to  a  better  future  for  our¬ 
selves  and  for  our  beloved  city  is  not  that  of  circumstance,  but 
that  of  character. 

Our  friend  has  surely  joined 

“  The  choir  invisible, 

Of  those  immortal  dead  who  live  again 
In  minds  made  better  by  their  presence.” 

“  The  tidal  wave  of  deeper  souls 
Into  our  inmost  being  rolls, 

And  lifts  us  unawares 
Out  of  all  meaner  cares. 

Honor  to  those  whose  words  or  deeds 
Thus  help  us  in  our  daily  needs, 

And  by  their  overflow 
Raise  us  from  what  is  low.” 


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Address  by 

Caleb  Thomas  Winchester 


After  these  most  sincere  and  moving  tributes  to  the  char¬ 
acter  and  work  of  President  Raymond  as  a  pastor,  teacher, 
college  president,  citizen,  it  only  remains  for  me  to  say  a  very 
few  words  of  him  as  we  knew  him  in  the  ordinary  work  and 
business  of  life  as  neighbor  and  friend,  and  of  those  traits  of 
his  character  that  came  first  to  our  thought  when  we  heard  he 
was  gone  and  that  will  linger  longest  in  our  memory. 

I  think  a  great  many  people  said  to  themselves  last  Sunday: 
“  I  have  lost  a  friend.”  Dr.  Raymond  made  acquaintances 
easily  everywhere  and  with  all  classes  of  people;  and  all  those 
who  knew  him  felt  the  charm  of  his  genial,  open  nature. 
There  was  nothing  reserved  or  exclusive  or  distant  about  him. 
Said  a  man  to  me  on  Main  Street  yesterday:  “It  is  sad  about 
Dr.  Raymond.  I  always  liked  to  talk  with  that  man.  Some¬ 
how,  you  could  always  totich  Dr.  Raymond.”  Everybody 
liked  to  talk  with  him;  and  so  wide  were  his  sympathies  and 
so  broad  and  kindly  his  interest  in  all  sorts  of  people,  that 
everybody  found  something  congenial  in  him.  The  man  on 
the  street  or  the  man  at  the  plow,  the  man  in  the  office  or  the 
man  in  the  professor’s  chair  —  they  all  could  “touch  Dr. 
Raymond.”  Some  men  like  to  talk  for  the  sake  of  argument. 
They  are  on  the  lookout  for  points  of  difference.  Dr.  Raymond 
was  always  looking  out  for  points  of  agreement  and  sympathy. 
He  was  not  one  of  your  men  who  weakly  assent  to  whatever 
you  say  in  a  kind  of  lazy  good  nature;  he  had  formed  opinions 
of  his  own  on  almost  all  subjects  of  discussion,  educational, 
political,  theological;  but  his  opinions  were  never  narrow  and 
bigoted.  There  was  nothing  harsh,  censorious,  arrogant,, 
about  the  man.  His  temper  was  essentially  brotherly.  In 
all  the  twenty-seven  years  I  knew  him,  I  never  heard  him 
say  a  single  malicious  or  contemptuous  word  of  any  man. 
A  large-minded,  warm-hearted,  brotherly  man! 


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And  what  a  cheerful  man  he  was  in  all  his  days!  And  that 
is  saying  much  when  we  remember  those  later  years.  Cheer¬ 
fulness  is  easy  when  life  runs  smoothly  on  as  you  would  like 
to  have  it;  but  Dr.  Raymond  had  to  bear  one  of  the  very 
sorest  trials  that  come  to  a  man — the  very  sorest  trial,  I  think, 
that  could  come  to  a  man  of  his  temperament  and  his  hopes. 
When  his  mental  powers  were  at  their  highest,  all  his  larger 
plans  as  yet  only  half  realized,  his  love  for  the  thoughtful 
life  of  a  student  as  yet  undimmed  and  undiminished,  then  he 
had  to  hear  the  imperative  command:  “Stop  there!  You 
must  surrender  all  your  larger  plans.  You  must  not  stand  in 
the  preacher’s  pulpit  nor  sit  in  the  professor’s  chair.  You 
cannot  read  or  study  or  think  intensely  any  more.  You  may 
live  on  for  years,  perhaps,  if  you  will  practice  an  irksome 
carefulness,  but  you  can  no  longer  do  what  you  have  been 
hoping  and  preparing  all  your  days  to  do.  You  must  be, 
hereafter,  mostly  a  spectator  in  the  great  work  of  life.’’  That 
was  virtually  the  command  that  President  Raymond  met  some 
dozen  years  ago,  when  he  knew  that  his  inexorable  disease 
had  fastened  itself  upon  him.  And  how  did  he  meet  it?  Like 
a  hero  and  a  Christian.  He  turned  away  from  his  chosen 
pursuits.  He  gave  up  those  plans  and  labors  to  which  his 
life  had  been  devoted.  He  tried  to  find  satisfaction  in  the 
outdoor  life  to  which  he  was  committed;  in  the  varied  observa¬ 
tion  of  men  and  things  in  his  occasional  travels;  in  the  renewal 
of  old  friendships  and  the  reviving  of  old  memories;  and, 
above  all,  in  the  increased  companionship  of  his  own  family, 
his  children  and  his  grandchildren.  Those  of  us  wTho  saw 
him  constantly  in  those  years  know  well  how  much  of  quiet 
self-denial  and  restriction  all  this  surrender  meant.  “  I  can’t 
read  them  very  much  now-a-days,”  he  said  to  me  once  in  his 
library,  in  a  cheerful  tone  but  with  rather  a  wistful  look  about 
his  bookshelves.  As  I  used  to  see  him  riding  about  the 
country  on  horseback  in  those  days,  and  knew  how  much 
rather  he  would  have  been  at  home  in  his  study,  his  temper 
seemed  to  me  nothing  less  than  heroic.  And  through  it  all 
he  never  lost  his  cheerfulness.  His  memory  was  stored  with 
an  abundance  of  things  that  are  honest  and  pure  and  just  and 
lovely  and  of  good  report  to  think  upon.  He  had  that  excel¬ 
lent  gift  of  God — a  quick  sense  of  humor,  genial  but  never 


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sarcastic  or  with  any  trace  of  cynicism;  and  this  humor  was 
more  delightful  in  those  years  than  ever.  In  fact,  I  sometimes 
think  he  cultivated  it  all  the  more  in  those  days  which  might 
have  been  so  cheerless.  He  tried  to  enjoy  his  “leisure,”  as 
he  called  it,  and  to  make  others  enjoy  it  too.  He  was  always 
hopeful  and  cheery.  It  was  always  good  to  be  in  his  company. 
Still  more  characteristic  of  his  noble  and  unselfish  nature  was 
it  that  he  never  abated  one  jot  of  his  interest  in  what  had  been 
the  great  work  of  his  life,  now  that  he  could  himself  no  longer 
conduct  or  share  it;  and  he  gave  his  most  cordial  and  loyal 
support  to  those  to  whom  the  work  was  now  entrusted.  Did 
any  one  in  all  those  years  ever  hear  Bradford  P.  Raymond 
utter  a  single  word  either  of  complaint  or  of  envy  ?  I  never 
did. 

How  did  he  live  so  through  those  years?  You  know  the 
answer.  He  was  a  Christian  man.  He  believed  that  the 
steps  of  a  good  man,  though  they  may  not  follow  the  paths  he 
would  himself  have  chosen,  are  yet  ordered  of  the  Lord, — and 
as  we  saw  him,  we  believed  that  too.  More  than  twenty 
years  ago  he  wrote  a  little  book  on  Christian  evidences,  and  a 
very  wise  and  beautiful  little  book  I  think  it;  but  his  life  for 
the  last  ten  years  has  been  a  living  epistle,  teaching  as  no 
words  can,  the  kindness,  the  patience,  the  cheer  and  helpful¬ 
ness  that  grow  out  of  an  unshaken  faith  in  the  Master’s  love. 

One  week  ago  this  morning  he  sat  in  his  accustomed  place 
in  this  church  and,  at  the  close  of  the  service,  joined  with  the 
congregation  in  singing  the  closing  hymn.  The  last  words  of 
that  hymn  were  probably  the  last  words  of  Christian  verse 
ever  on  his  lips. 

“  Green  pastures  are  before  me,  which  yet  I  have  not  seen; 

Bright  skies  will  soon  be  o’er  me,  where  darkest  clouds 
have  been. 

My  hope  I  cannot  measure;  my  path  to  life  is  free; 

My  Saviour  has  my  treasure,  and  He  will  walk  with  me.” 

An  hour  later  and  he  was  gone.  Much  as  we  grieve,  we 
cannot  but  feel  a  certain  solemn  joy  that  it  was  not  after  a 
period  of  long  and  wasting  decay,  but  in  an  hour  of  Sabbath 
quiet,  in  the  peace  and  love  of  his  home,  that  at  last  the 
Master  said,  “It  is  enough  !  ”,  touched  his  heart,  and  called 
him  instantly  home. 


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SmiUttimts 


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The  Board  of 

Trustees  of  Wesleyan  University 


The  Trustees  of  Wesleyan  University,  with  warm  affection 
for  a  cherished  friend  and  profound  respect  for  a  noble  charac¬ 
ter,  place  upon  the  record  this  brief  remembrance  of  Bradford 
Paul  Raymond,  ex-President  of  the  University,  and,  at  the 
time  of  his  death,  February  27,  1916,  Professor  Emeritus  of 
Ethics  and  Biblical  Eiterature. 

The  presidency  of  Dr.  Raymond  extended  over  a  period  of 
nineteen  years,  1889-1908.  It  was  the  longest  in  the  history 
of  the  institution.  Including  the  years  of  retirement  from 
actual  teaching,  he  was  professor  of  Moral  Philosophy  and 
kindred  subjects  for  more  than  twenty-six  years. 

When,  at  the  beginning  of  the  academic  year  of  1889,  he 
stood  at  the  threshold  of  the  great  opportunity  offered  to  him 
by  the  election  in  the  previous  November,  he  had  already  been 
for  six  years  a  college  president.  His  Alma  Mater,  Lawrence 
University,  had  called  him  to  this  high  service  when  he  was 
but  thirty-seven  years  of  age.  Before  that  his  course  of  train¬ 
ing  had  taken  him  through  the  perils  and  privations  of  war, 
the  struggles  for  a  college  education,  the  discipline  of  the 
theological  school,  the  intellectual  and  spiritual  tests  of  study 
in  Germany,  and,  for  several  years,  the  experiences  of  a  pastor. 
His  nature  was  like  his  thinking,  simple,  generous,  straight¬ 
forward,  hospitable;  and  through  these  phases  of  varied 
experience  he  gathered  rich  resources  for  use  and  investment 
in  the  many  vital  years  during  which  he  was  President  of 
Wesleyan  University. 


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Though  he  came  a  comparative  stranger  to  trustees,  faculty, 
and  students,  he  was  received  by  all  with  heartiest  welcome. 
Soon  he  was  found  to  be  as  profound  as  he  was  candid,  as 
strong  as  he  was  simple,  as  witty  as  he  was  brave,  as  firm  as 
he  was  gentle,  as  eloquent  as  he  was  companionable.  He 
became  to  many  a  wise  counselor,  to  not  a  few  a  trusted 
friend,  to  the  college  a  safe  and  unselfish  First  Director,  to 
its  constituency  a  representative,  faithful  ever  to  its  interests 
and  ardent  in  devotion  to  its  ideals. 

Through  the  years  came  many  tests  both  of  wisdom  and 
courage.  Discipline  was  to  be  enforced.  Financial  emer¬ 
gencies  were  to  be  met.  Adjustments  of  curricula  and  of 
administrative  methods  were  inevitable.  Ideals  and  customs, 
honored  through  long  years,  were  to  be  interpreted  in  the 
light  of  a  new  intellectual  and  social  spirit.  Elsewhere  will 
surely  be  written  the  story  of  progress  and  achievement. 
Here  we,  who  shared  with  him  in  the  fellowship  of  this 
service  of  administration  during  the  score  of  years  of  his 
presidency,  make  record  of  our  admiration  for  the  spirit  in 
which  Dr.  Raymond  conducted  the  business,  dealt  with  the 
administration,  and  advanced  the  interests  of  Wesleyan  Uni¬ 
versity  in  this  critical  period  of  its  development. 

There  was  in  him  no  liking  for  the  spectacular.  He  was  a 
philosopher,  and  well  he  knew  that  growth  is  quiet.  He  was, 
in  the  deepest  meaning  of  the  word  so  often  misunderstood,  a 
Christian;  and  was  well  persuaded  that  the  walls  of  a  college 
are  invisible,  and  that  they  rise  without  sound  of  hammer. 
Doubtless  beyond  the  satisfaction  that  justly  might  come  in 
the  enlargement  of  the  material  equipment  and  endowment, 
the  increase  of  the  faculty  and  of  the  student  body,  and  the 
broadening  of  the  curriculum,  there  would  be  in  his  modest 
soul  during  these  later  years  of  physical  infirmity  a  rare  joy 
that,  in  class  after  class  for  nineteen  years,  he  and  those  asso¬ 
ciated  with  him  had  been  building  into  stalwart  character  the 
rich  realities  of  the  eternal  life. 


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Grateful  for  the  intellectual  and  spiritual  ministry  of  Presi¬ 
dent  Raymond  in  Wesleyan  University,  and  convinced  that 
the  lengthening  years  will  add  new  significance  to  the  achieve¬ 
ments  of  the  institution  while  under  his  administration,  the 
Trustees  count  it  a  high  honor  to  have  shared  in  the  aspira¬ 
tions  and  endeavors  of  one  so  true  and  so  noble,  of  one  who 
belongs  so  naturally  in  the  succession  of  Presidents  who 
from  the  beginning  have  given  to  the  University  an  exalted 
leadership. 

The  Trustees  direct  that  a  copy  of  this  minute  be  sent  to 
Mrs.  Raymond,  with  the  assurance  of  their  profound  sympathy 
with  her  and  her  children  in  their  great  sorrow. 


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The  Faculty 

We,  the  members  of  the  Faculty  of  Wesleyan  University, 
desire  to  express  our  sense  of  irreparable  loss  in  the  death  of 
Bradford  Paul  Raymond,  connected  so  long  and  so  intimately 
with  the  life  of  the  college.  In  his  presidency  of  nineteen 
years  Dr.  Raymond  showed  himself  untiring  in  his  labors  for 
the  growth  and  success  of  the  institution  of  which  he  was  the 
head,  and  which  owes  so  much  to  him. 

As  a  man  he  was  faithful  and  upright  and  true.  His  kind¬ 
ness  of  heart,  his  courtesy  and  tact,  his  sense  of  humor,  his 
life  of  simple  piety  spent  in  the  service  of  his  Master,  won  him 
the  love  of  all  who  knew  him.  In  his  sudden  passing  away 
we  mourn  the  patriot  soldier,  the  thinker  and  scholar,  the 
faithful  friend  and  Christian  gentleman. 


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The  College  Body 

Whereas,  God,  in  his  infinite  wisdom  and  mercy,  has  seen 
fit  to  take  from  our  midst  our  beloved  Professor  and  former 
President,  Bradford  Paul  Raymond,  and 

Whereas,  we  realize  that  there  has  passed  from  us  an 
honored  President  and  inspired  preacher  of  the  Gospel,  who 
by  his  Christian  spirit,  loyalty  to  God  and  nation,  and  high 
ideals  of  scholarship,  has  had  a  dominant  influence  in  the 
development  of  our  University;  be  it  therefore 

Resolved,  that  we  the  members  of  the  College  Body  of 
Wesleyan  University  do  publicly  extend  to  the  bereaved  family 
our  deepest  sympathy  and  condolence  in  this,  their  great 
bereavement;  and  be  it  further 

Resolved,  that  copies  of  these  resolutions  be  sent  to  the 
family  of  the  deceased,  be  placed  on  the  records  of  the  College 
Body,  and  be  published  in  the  Middletown  papers  and  the 
Wesleyan  Argus. 


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The  Wesleyan  Chapter  of  Commons  Clubs 


Whereas,  it  hath  seemed  best  to  the  infinite  Source  and 
Giver  of  all  life  to  take  from  among  us  our  honored  elder 
brother,  friend,  and  counsellor,  Bradford  Paul  Raymond, 
ex-President,  Professor  emeritus,  and  eminent  scholar;  and 

Whereas,  we  the  members  of  the  Wesleyan  Chapter  of 
Commons  Clubs  feel  very  deeply  so  sudden  and  great  a  loss; 
be  it  therefore 

Resolved,  that  we  extend  our  most  sincere  sympathy  to 
his  family  in  their  time  of  sorrow;  and  be  it  further 

Resolved,  that  a  copy  of  these  resolutions  be  sent  to  Mrs. 
Raymond,  and  that  another  copy  be  entered  upon  the  records 
of  this  organization,  and  that  another  copy  be  sent  to  the 
Wesleyan  Argus. 


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The  Official  Board  of  the  First  Methodist 

Episcopal  Church 


In  the  death  of  Bradford  Paul  Raymond,  this  church  has 
lost  a  valued  member  and  each  individual  in  it  has  lost  a 
beloved  friend. 

Undeterred  by  his  arduous  duties  to  the  college  of  which  he 
was  the  head,  and  to  the  denomination  at  large,  he  threw 
himself  whole-heartedly  into  the  work  of  this  church.  He 
seldom  missed  a  service  which  he  could  attend.  In  the  prayer 
meeting  his  voice  was  upraised  in  prayer,  testimony,  and  song, 
and  in  each  we  heard  him  with  delight.  To  hear  his  out¬ 
pouring  of  soul  in  the  meeting  was  an  inspiration;  to  shake 
his  hand  afterwards  and  receive  his  hearty,  genial  greeting, 
was  a  benediction.  There  are  many  of  us  who  can  never  for¬ 
get  some  word  of  appreciation  or  encouragement  uttered  in  no 
perfunctory  or  conventional  spirit  but  in  the  true  spirit  of 
Christian  brotherliness. 

Soldier  of  God  and  of  his  country,  preacher  of  the  gospel  as 
well  from  his  daily  life  as  from  the  pulpit,  champion  of  the 
highest  ideals  in  education,  civic  life,  and  in  all  human 
relations — in  the  long  roll  of  men  and  women  who  by  their 
life  and  death  have  made  this  church  rich  in  fragrant  mem¬ 
ories,  Doctor  Raymond  holds  a  worthy  place. 

His  kindly  demeanor,  his  uncomplaining  endurance,  his 
great  faith  in  all  that  was  good  and  noble  in  man,  and  his 
supreme  trust  in  the  overshadowing  providence  of  God  were 
long  known  to  the  people  of  this  church.  By  the  abiding 
memory  of  these  things  he,  being  dead,  yet  speaketh. 

“  Though  our  lips  may  breathe  adieu, 

We  cannot  think  the  thing  “farewell.” 


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Mansfield  Post 

of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic 

Whereas,  our  Divine  Commander  having  transferred  our 
beloved  comrade,  Bradford  Paul  Raymond,  from  the  earthly 
field  of  operations  to  the  spiritual  field  eternal,  we  loyally 
submit  to  the  order  of  transfer,  though  our  hearts  are  filled 
with  sorrow  over  our  loss,  which  is  very  great;  and 

Whereas,  the  feeling  of  abiding  friendship,  fostered  amid 
the  trying  scenes  of  war,  bound  our  comrade  to  us  in  the 
strongest  ties  of  comradeship,  making  him  one  with  us,  and 
of  us,  loyal,  patriotic,  true,  and  ever  glad  to  promote  our 
uplift  and  general  welfare; 

Resolved,  that  the  influence  of  his  example  will  ever 
abide  with  us  as  a  constant  incentive  to  right  living,  and  that 
we,  sorrowing  with  them  in  their  loss,  extend  to  his  bereaved 
family  our  deepest  sympathy. 

Resolved,  that,  as  a  tribute  of  respect  to  his  memory, 
Mansfield  Post  Charter  be  draped  for  the  usual  period  as 
evidence  of  a  departed  comrade,  that  these  minutes  be  spread 
upon  the  records  of  this  Post,  and  that  a  copy  be  presented 
to  the  members  of  our  comrade’s  family. 


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